Johann Nicolaus & Catharina Müller had two children who immigrated to Russia: (1) Martin, born in 1737 in Kressenbach; and (2) Catharina, born 5 January 1748 in Kressenbach.
(1) Martin Müller from Wiedermus married on 8 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen to Anna Catharina Knaus, daughter of Johann Hermann Knaus & Anna Margaretha Hoffmann. Anna Catharina had been baptized in Düdelsheim on 9 February 1738.
Martin Müller, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 June 1766 aboard a boat named Северный Орел (Northern Eagle) under the command of Lieutenant Peter Malenkov along with her parents Herrmann & Anna Knaus and brother Johann (age 20). [See Knaus Family.]
They arrived in Moor on 18 June 1767 and are recorded there in Household No. 38 along with newborn son Adam (age ¾ year).
In 1788, Adolf Müller and his family moved from Müller to Stephan.
The 1767 census records that Martin Müller came from the German region of Isenburg.
(2) Catharina Müller married Johann Adam Knaus, son of Johann Hermann Knaus & Anna Margaretha Hoffmann.
Adam Knaus and his [new] wife arrived at the port in Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766.
Adam Knaus, his wife Anna Katharina, and his mother Anna Margaretha are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 37.
- Bonner, Wayne H. Volga German Settlers Identified in Isenburg and Other German Church Records Part I (Gardena, CA: Wayne Bonner, 2007): 49-50.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 185.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Mo15, Mo49, Mv1795.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #496.
- Parish register of Düdelsheim (LDS Film No. 1201789).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 165.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): 99.
Wayne Bonner
Brent Mai